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Chris Jericho Continues To Compare Ricky Starks To The Rock, NJPW All Star Junior Festival 2023 Card

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During a recent appearance on Busted Open Radio, former AEW World Champion Chris Jericho heaped praise on Ricky Starks for his promo skills and drew comparisons to Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.

Jericho, who shared the ring with The Rock back in the day, sees glimpses of The Great One in The Absolute. Jericho said,

When you first stand in the ring with The Rock, you talk about a generational talent, that’s a different level. The thing with Ricky is, I’ve seen glimpses of that, which is great. He’s still harnessing and the idea for this program was to continue to build. He did a great promo in San Antonio when we started that really blew my mind, I thought it was awesome. Then there were some moments that weren’t quite as good just because that’s how it goes. I thought last night [Wednesday] was the best Starks has been in our program so far. Nuances. A lot of the younger guys, they’ll talk with deep breathing because they are afraid to be like, ‘I want to say this. Pause. Let the crowd react.’ He really had some great nuances with that. That’s what Sammy Guevara and Danny Garcia are learning. Guys have to learn when they haven’t had a lot of promos, really how to hone in what you are and how to hold the crowd in the palm of your hand without saying a word. At the click of a pen, shall we say. Ricky is really starting to hone in on that and figure it out, which has been great.”

New Japan Pro Wrestling will be hosting a junior heavyweight festival next week, with the card produced by Hiromu Takahashi. NJPW has now announced the lineup for the show, which takes place at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo, Japan on March 1.

You can check out the updated lineup below:

* Master Wato (NJPW) vs. Atsuki Aoyagi (AJPW)
* Ninja Mack (NOAH) vs. Soberano Jr (CMLL) vs. Taiji Ishimori (NJPW) vs. YO-HEY (NOAH) vs. Shun Skywalker (Dragon Gate)
* Alejandro (NOAH), Billy Ken Kid (Osaka Pro), Gurukun Mask (Ryukyu Dragon), and Mistico (CMLL) vs. Black Mensore (AJPW), Atlantis Jr. (CMLL), Dragon Kid (Dragon Gate), and BUSHI (NJPW)
* El Desperado (NJPW) and Volador Jr. (CMLL) vs. Yuki Ueno (DDT) and El Lindaman (GLEAT) vs. DOUKI (NJPW) and HANAOKA (SECRET BASE)
* Jun Kasai (FREEDOMS), Yoshinobu Kanemaru (NJPW), Minoru Tanaka (GLEAT), TAKA Michinoku (JTO), and Tatsuhito Takaiwa vs. Kota Sekifuda (BJW), Shoki Kitamura (Zero1), Chicharito Shoki (2AW), MUSASHI (Michinoku Pro) and LEONA (DRADITION)
* Yumehito Imanari (Ganbare Pro), Ryusuke Taguchi (NJPW) and Hikaru Sato (PANCRASE MISSION) vs. Great Sasuke (Michinoku Pro), Tigers Mask (Osaka Pro) & Batten Burabura (Kyushu Pro)
* Hiromu Takahashi (NJPW), AMAKUSA (NOAH), and Fujita ‘Jr.’ Hayato (Michinoku Pro) vs. YAMATO (Dragon Gate), HAYATA (NOAH), and Kazuki Hashimoto (BJW)
* Isami Kodaka (BASARA) and MAO (DDT) vs. Onryo (666) and SHO (NJPW)

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